I have this script where I'm trying to scp a file from one box to my home box.

I think I set up the whole thing with ssh-keygen correctly. At least from a command prompt, I and do ssh remotebox and I'm logged in without ever being prompted for a password (this only works on my home box not when I'm on another box).

So my script is really simple. 

use Net::SCP;

my $scp = Net::SCP->new("10.33.1.75", "xorl") or die("COULD NOT SCP");

$scp->scp("/export/home/xorl/websterproject/xferlist.txt", "/tmp/webst
+erproject_xfer.txt") or die("TRANSFER FAILED");

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Now it always dies with "TRANSFER FAILED" /tmp/websterproject_xfer.txt is sometimes created as an empty file.

I believe the permissions are correct on xferlist.txt I can from a command prompt do scp 10.33.1.75:/export/home/xorl/websterproject/xferlist.txt /tmp/websterproject_xfer.txtand everything works fine (it never asks me for a password).

So now I'm trying to figure how do I see what exaclty is going on inside of Net::SSH. I tried running the script with -d but I was quickly over my head. It looked like to me everything was going fine and then all of a sudden kaboom it dies.

So can anyone help me figure out what the problem is and how to fix it? Do I need to spend much time with the debugger?

Thanks.

In reply to How do I debug a problem with Net:SSH by xorl

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